(n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
(n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(2) Such loads might worsen the chest wall distortion that is characteristic of patients with flail chest.
(3) The proximal ring of the graft effectively stabilized the flail aortic valve in two patients with aortic regurgitation associated with dissection of the ascending aorta.
(4) Serial studies demonstrated eventual disruption of the chordal attachments of the anterior tricuspid leaflet resulting in frank leaflet flail.
(5) Cardiac surgeons generally ignore the importance of the flail septum that results from anteroseptal infarction.
(6) The postoperative course of all the patients was uneventful and there was no incidence of flail chest or respiratory failure.
(7) We noted that mortality rate was highly dependent on major chest trauma: 68.6% for flail chest (FC), 56% for lung contusion (LC), 42.3% for hemothorax (HA), and 38.1% for pneumothorax (PN).
(8) Using type III struts, we have obtained stabilization of the flail chest in all cases even in patients with severe anterior paradoxical movement.
(9) Sixteen dogs were placed under general anesthesia and flail segments of the left chest were created by transecting ribs 7,8,9, and 10 anteriorly and posteriorly.
(10) The flurry of charges were announced in a statement released by the governing body on Monday evening which confirmed the referee, Mike Dean, had not witnessed Costa putting his hands in Laurent Koscielny’s face and, more significantly, the forward’s flailing left arm making contact with his marker.
(11) Localized pulmonary contusions were produced in the right lower lobes (RLL) of 12 anesthetized ventilated dogs, 6 of which had a flail segment in the chest wall over the RLL.
(12) The patients presented difficult management problems, having undergone an average of two previous operations per joint; 22 joints had suffered prior complications; 18 had less than 50 degrees of flexion and six were flail.
(13) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.
(14) In it, her character, Donna Stern, navigates a break up, a flailing career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, ultimately, an abortion.
(15) The symptoms of myoclonic flail movements and memorable dreams which are observed in association with G-LOC may provide key information for unraveling the neurophysiologic mechanism of G-LOC and subsequent recovery.
(16) "Shaggy" echoes recorded from the aortic leaflets in diastole as well as irregular diastolic densities in the left ventricular outflow tract suggested flail aortic leaflets secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
(17) In reality, this medium is so new and so ever-changing, that everyone seems to be flailing around (some less than others) trying to figure out what to do next.
(18) In the treatment of severe chest injuries with flail chest either positive-pressure mechanical ventilation (and tracheostomy) is necessary or the surgical stabilisation of the chest wall by osteosyntheses of the broken ribs.
(19) In cases of concomitant serial rib resection radius and ulna will serve as stabilizators of the thoracic wall, thus avoiding a flail chest.
(20) Total mortality was 4.1%, and 13.6% in patients with flail chest.
Gesticulate
Definition:
(v. i.) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
(v. t.) To represent by gesture; to act.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(2) Here's Trintignant, twirling his walking stick in one hand and gesticulating with the other; taking issue with this and that.
(3) I gesticulate too much when I'm talking and look at the passenger when I'm doing so rather than at the road.
(4) 90+2 min: Shane Smeltz swears at the linesman while gesticulating furiously after being denied a much-needed corner.
(5) Not that I am claiming they all had fluent Irish - far from it - but they were willing to engage with me, to string together the few stray words of school Irish that arose from the darkest recesses of their minds, or else to try to decipher my miming and mad gesticulation.
(6) I learned about how important everyone’s vote is and just how special it is to live in a country where that is available to us,” Beydoun said, her hands gesticulating like a future stateswoman.
(7) The crowd gathers around the polling station officials, gesticulating angrily.
(8) In an intensive videotape analysis of 10 psychotherapy sessions, the body positions and gesticulation patterns of the client were examined in relation to changes in her verbal behavior.
(9) The active phase was dominated by coma or confusion and by abnormal movements, including disordered gesticulation and attacks of orofacial dyskinesia or limb dystonia associated with permanent rigidity and culminating in opisthotonic posturing.
(10) As Jones, not a player given to complaint about physical clashes, gesticulated urgently for help, Klinsmann grimaced.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An unidentified British jihadi can be heard in this audio clip from the video released on Sunday by Isis Gesticulating in a manner similar to that used by Emwazi , who was also known as Jihadi John, the unnamed terrorist repeatedly waves a gun at the camera as he references British airstrikes in Syria.
(12) DM: Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is playing the stoic holding role, refusing to budge and occasionally gesticulating wildly at the referee, although never actually getting into the danger zone at the forefront of the action.
(13) Sherwood, who is set to leave Tottenham at the end of the season, was gesticulating and interacting with supporters with renewed vigour and enthusiasm throughout the game.
(14) The gesticulations of Iraq's Serbian coach Vladimir Petrovic in the opening stanza were clearly delivered to his charges at the interval.
(15) The main image of the night will be of Romney, eyes alight, gesticulating from the podium with a rarely seen passion, while Obama, playing into his image as professorial, delivered most of his answers with his head down.
(16) Then another group of four or five would come up, and they’d gesticulate in various directions and send them off again.” The men occasionally paused to take selfies on their mobiles, she said, adding that they wore “sports chic” or “the type of clothing rappers might wear – smart trainers, baseball caps”.
(17) I’ve thought about writing novels in the past, and I’ve always been blocked by the fact that I’m not particularly deep or wise or anything else – and what really helped to unblock it was [the idea that] you can write a light, frothy entertainment that’s got a certain tone, and if you hold the tone all the way through, you’ve got a book.” On tape, later, Marr’s own tone – authoritative, quick, clear, offering just enough to obscure what he doesn’t want to give away – is the same as always, but it is striking how different he seems in person from the familiar figure on the TV news, gesticulating enthusiastically in front of the palace of Westminster, riding waves of complex and entertaining metaphors.
(18) You're trained to gesticulate while you talk (it's meant to make you sound more convincing) so everyone's walking round like politicians.
(19) The client's gesticulation ratings were not related significantly to the Experiencing Scale ratings, but clinically interesting relationships between gesticulation patterns and verbal content were noted.
(20) Dr Samuel Johnson was noted by his friends to have almost constant tics and gesticulations, which startled those who met him for the first time.